Unstoppable: For leaders who refuse to settle.

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Recognize Alex Grande, who built a career around behavioral science, technology, and performance—but whose path started with a series of unconventional decisions and one belief that shaped everything that followed: you can create your own reality.  Alex takes us back to a moment early in his career when he found himself in wha...

On this week’s solo episode, Jana explores a problem hiding in plain sight: why so many intelligent, capable people keep making decisions that quietly undermine the future they say they want to build.  It starts with a familiar scene. A boardroom. A red number. A decision that everyone in the room knows is wrong long-term but necessary short-term. Delay the investment. Hit the quarter. Survive ano...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with hedge fund founder, financial strategist, and wealth educator Patience Dean, who rebuilt from homelessness multiple times before retiring in her 30s and creating a system designed to help others build sustainable wealth from the ground up.  Patience takes us back to a decision she made at just 10 years old. After watching people around her trade time for...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Groas David Pourquery, who walked away from one of the most competitive and prestigious career paths in finance to build a fully bootstrapped AI company on his own terms.  David takes us back to the moment he realized that success on paper wasn’t translating into the life he actually wanted. After breaking into private equity...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and author Neen James, who built a successful business helping organizations improve productivity and attention, only to realize she was being pulled toward a message that didn’t fit neatly into any category. Neen takes us into a pivotal moment during one of the most uncertain periods in recent history. As live eve...

On this week’s episode, Jana breaks down one of the most important strategic decisions in business history: the moment Intel realized the product that built the company could also destroy it if leadership refused to let go. At the center of the story is former Intel CEO Andy Grove, sitting in a cubicle with co-founder Gordon Moore during the collapse of Intel’s memory chip business in the 1980s. A...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and former Wall Street VP Len Ward, who walked away from the traditional corporate path after watching his e-commerce business collapse during the 2008 financial crisis, and then rebuilt his career by betting on a digital future most businesses still didn’t understand. Len takes us back to the moment everything changed. After years of succes...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with compensation strategist and independent consultant Scott Trumpolt, who spent nearly two decades climbing the corporate ladder across the U.S. and Germany before realizing that success had slowly pulled him away from the work he actually loved. Scott takes us inside the moment that forced him to confront a difficult truth. While working for a global corpo...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Nicolas Breedlove, CEO of NVB Playgrounds, who built a national business without a traditional blueprint, and then had to rebuild it after a major breakdown in trust. Nicolas takes us into a pivotal moment early in his company’s growth, when a trusted employee exploited internal systems, stole leads, and created competing distributorships behind the scen...

On this week’s episode, Jana breaks down one of the most consequential decisions in modern business history, and why it still matters today. In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple when it was just 90 days from running out of cash. Dozens of products, over a billion dollars in losses, and a company executing well on the wrong things. What he did next wasn’t gradual, it was decisive. He cut 70% of Ap...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Gina Schreck, a nationally recognized speaker and marketing strategist turned founder of The Village Workspace, a coworking community designed to challenge the traditional office environment. Gina takes us into the moment that changed her trajectory, the night before signing a 10 year lease and putting down over $200,000, when her husband told her he did...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Cliff Nonnenmacher, Founder of Franocity and a multi-unit franchise operator turned investor. Cliff takes us into the moment that changed his trajectory — a seemingly small conflict with a boss at Smith Barney that exposed a bigger truth: he no longer wanted to build someone else’s vision. What followed wasn’t a leap; it was a calculated move. After iden...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Arjun Sen, a brand strategist who has spent over 25 years helping companies like Papa John’s, Smashburger, and Walgreens find their positioning and scale. Arjun takes us into the moment that changed everything — a sudden cancer diagnosis that gave him less than 100 days to live, forcing him to confront not just his mortality, but the way he approached li...

Jana introduces Unstoppable as a podcast focused on applied motivation—what actually drives people to take action. She shares her personal turning point: leaving a successful career at Cigna, despite stability and external expectations, to start her own company after recognizing both an internal drive and a market gap. By reframing risk and clearly defining the worst-case scenario, she realized th...